I'm looking forward to this weekend. Big John Beatty and I will be motoring down to Tampa for Tim Gordon's Tampa Comic Book and Toy Convention. Big Beatty is a guest but before I get to that...

Saturday night Beatty and I are going to attend a little get together put on by Randy Martin. Randy is an avid art collector whose theme happens to be Edward Scissorshands. How cool is that? John Higashi will be there with his Star Wars theme [which includes are from just about anyone who is ANYONE. How many collections do you know that feature Drew Struzan originals [note the "s" as in many]? John Dell and other artists will be attending as well. It's going to be a lot of fun.

The next day is Tampa Con. John is a guest [which makes me a guest of a guest, I suppose]. Other real guests include MARTY NODELL [creator of the original GREEN LANTERN], ETHAN VAN SCIVER [X-Men], ALEX SAVIUK [Spider-Man], JIM FERN [Scion, Wolverine], AUSTIN JANOWSKY [Superman], DICK KULPA [artist and publisher of CRACKED], MARK and STEPHANIE HEIKE and others.

If you happen to be in the area, stop in and say, "Hi." I'll be the guy in the StalloneZone shirt angeling for more Stallone sketches!

I'll bet that the new "Punisher" movie does pretty well at the box office. I say this for two reasons: 1[ The Punisher is a pretty cool character and 2] the trailer makes it look like the movie will be fun. So yeah, I think that it'll do well even though the guy playing the Punisher doesn't look like the "bad mofo" I've come to know and love.

Mike Zeck's Punisher... now that's the real Punisher!

One of my favorite movies last year was the very under-rated The Transporter
starring Jason Stratham. It had a cool soundtrack and just the right mix of action
and comedy. It's made a great addition to my dvd collection and everyone that I've
shown it to has really liked it.

I'm happy to say that CHUD.com posted an interview with Jason Stratham and that
he and director, Corey Yuen are returning for The Transporter 2!

According to an item at Dark Horizons, Warner Brothers wants to do another "Dirty Harry" movie with Clint Eastwood. Eastwood thinks he's too old to play Harry Callahan chasing criminals [and I'd have to agree]. Still Warner Bros. really wants another "Dirty Harry" movie. One suggestion that might work would be to start with a new person playing Dirty Harry.

Eastwood could even direct! Now that might make my day!

Britney Spears appeared topless on the cover of Rolling Stone and British Elle magazines and even bottomless on the cover of Esquire. But now she says she going to keep her clothes on in future photo sessions.

Did I just hear the sound of males around the world sobbing?

I don't know which surprised me more: that "Scary Movie 3" opened in first place [beating out "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Mystic River," "Runaway Jury," etc.], that it earned $48.1 million in it's opening weekend [$48.1 MILLION!} or that it posted the best first weekend ever for a movie opening in October.

One thing that won't surprise me is that with numbers like that, there WILL be a "Scary Movie 4!"